The Clifton clarion., 1887-04-13
Hot Drinks Gut Of Favor.

New York Sun: The average me
 tropolitan moderate drinker has for the last five years been chang
 ing his winter tipple from hot to
 cold. Like all great changes in
 society, this has been almost i'm
 perceptible in its operation, and,
 as in other revelations of popular taste, the result is not easily traced
 back to its causes. Eminent and
 representative bart tenders fail to
 agree on the true reason why hot
 drinks are in disfavor. Five years
 ago, in fashionable barrooms, a
 mammoth, richly-ornamented, and
 costly punch-bowl rested midway
 on the counter, and in 1t was a compound of eggs and sugar. This
 was vulgarly called "dope," but by
 the esthetic bartender "prepara- tion," meaning the foundation for
 "Tom and Jerry" the superstruct- ure being composed of rum and
 nutmeg. Served in mugs, like those given "To Good Boy" this was a sweet but insidious drink.
 On the back bar there was al- ways, in those days, also an up right highly-polisbed circular hot water boiler on legs, with a lamp burning under it day and night. This was to lend aid in the con struction Of hot Scotches and hot lemonades, and the various sings and fips which require caloric. In very many bar-rooms this station ary engine has been removed from the sight of the bibulous customer to the more or less moist shelf ur- der the bar, where its brightness is dimned by neglect
 Some contemporary bartenders have expressed thelr opinions in conversation on the cause of this change In the fashion in our bev- erages, and, as a study of the so- cial changes of our time, these views are interesting. A barten- der downtown, where the tide of business rushes all day. said: Americans have found out that they are too busy to wait for tue preparation of a hot drink. What they want is to grab the bottle, pour ont the rum into the glass, and swallow it on the jump. They're after the effect. | good 1 many drinkers will wait for mix ed drink, but they havn't the time to stand and sip a hot drink"
 In well-known hotel for sport ing men uptown the bartender said: It ain't considered the prop CT thing to call for hot drinks. It argues that you're coddlin' your self. Old men take bot drinks when they have a cold and just be- fore they get into bed; but for strong men who live out of doors good old rye whiskey, cold, is the reg'lar booze"
 At club house on a fashionable l avenue, owned by very English young Americans, the buffet at tendant, as the bartender is called, said that he really didn't know why | hot drinks were no longer fashion l able, but he had heard some of the l young gentlemen say, though he | would not be quoted as saying so, that hot drinks opened the pures of the skin and are dangerous to l the health, especially when one rides in cab with open windows. |
 A bartender on Avenue B said | that 1t was no longer considered l in the mode on the East Side to l call for hot drinks. The maxim ! sad to be once popular in Texas that If 6 man was determined to l drink he had better stick to plain | is also popular on the East i Side. This statement was put in another way by dispenser of | cheerfulness in Fourth Ward gin | mill. He had an eloquent nose 1 and his hat was tipped over his ear. He merely remarked, in a voice not easily understood on ac- count of hoarsness:
 "Wot's de matter wid gin?"
 This WAS understood not as a | but as ap expression in favor of plain drinks.
 \ Ghastiy Parisian Notion.